JACKSON, MI — Consumers Energy moved into its headquarters at 212 W. Michigan Ave. in 1927, starting a 76-year history in that building that ended in 2003 when the company moved to its new downtown headquarters across downtown.

— 2004: The city of Jackson buys the building and nearby parking for $350,000. City employees move into the building that year as renovations began to City Hall.

— 2005: City officials move back into City Hall in July. It would be the last time the building was actively used. In October, the Jackson City Council votes to shutter the 280,000-square-foot building.

— 2007: The City Council approves a $5,000 purchase agreement for the Consumers building, as well as plans to redevelop the neighboring Hayes Hotel. Attorney Bruce Inosencio, who is the developer's principal agent, says a potential "anchor client" in the research and development sector could fill most of the Consumers building.

"On the inside I'm very, very excited, " Councilman Dan Greer says at the time. "But we have to temper that. Things like this are complicated and they take time."

— 2010: Independent Choice, a Jackson-based physicians group, hopes to build a new medical office center at the site if the City Council can tear down the building.

— 2012: A project that developers said would have brought 3,000 jobs to downtown calls for unnamed philanthropists to buy the Consumers Energy and Hayes Hotel buildings and turn them into a health care complex. Demolition begins late in the year.